Foreigners may replace Vietnamese in livestock industry from 2015 From 2015, Vietnamese products of pork, chicken and poultry eggs would no longer enjoy the local production protection policies. It is expected that by that time, Thai, Indonesian and Malaysian products would flood the domestic market.  Thai chicken need 6 hours only to arrive in HCM City Pham Duc Binh, General Director of Thanh Binh Company, who is also Deputy Chair of the Vietnam Animal Feed Association, said with the current conditions of the livestock industry, which is far inferior to regional countries in terms of the scale, productivity, production costs and quality, Vietnamese enterprises and farmers would suffer big difficulties once the protection is removed. Also depending on the breeders’ quality, A worker in Especially, Thai farmers can access bank loans at the low costs, enjoy tax incentives and the government’s support. All of these help make their production costs lower by 15-20 percent than Binh said 10 years ago, he once came to “Thais can provide fowls at very low prices. And I am sure that Thai chicken need only six hours to arrive to Other Asian countries can sell chicken at low prices to Domestic farmers bear hard pressure Since taking a loss, foreign invested enterprises have been trying to apply different measures to cut losses. They have prolonged the farming time and cut down the output. According to Nguyen Dang Vang, Chair of the Vietnam Livestock Association, the flcok of fowls has been narrowed considerably. In 2011, three big foreign invested enterprises -- namely C.P, Emivest, Japfa, bred 120 million fowls. The figure dropped to 70 million in 2012 and it is expected to decrease further in 2013. “Up to 50 percent of the farms in the north have stopped farming,” Vang said. Vang went on to say that the tariff cuts within the framework of AFTA would have serious impacts on domestic farmers. He thinks that foreign big groups in the fields have realized that there are no more great opportunities for them. Therefore, they have been taking steps to gradually scale down the farming in Source: SGTT |
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